Running COPY in Single Row Error Isolation Mode

By default, COPY stops an operation at the first error: if the data contains an error, the operation fails and no data loads. If you run COPY FROM in single row error isolation mode, HAWQ skips rows that contain format errors and loads properly formatted rows. Single row error isolation mode applies only to rows in the input file that contain format errors. If the data contains a contraint error such as violation of a NOT NULL or CHECK constraint, the operation fails and no data loads.

Specifying SEGMENT REJECT LIMIT runs the COPY operation in single row error isolation mode. Specify the acceptable number of error rows on each segment, after which the entire COPY FROM operation fails and no rows load. The error row count is for each HAWQ segment, not for the entire load operation.

If the COPY operation does not reach the error limit, HAWQ loads all correctly-formatted rows and discards the error rows. The LOG ERRORS INTO clause allows you to keep error rows for further examination. Use LOG ERRORS to capture data formatting errors internally in HAWQ. For example: